Palworld developer Pocketpair has dropped a brand new Steam demo for its upcoming Metroidvania, By no means Grave: The Witch and The Curse.
The upcoming sport – which, like Pocketpair’s predecessor, is fielding accusations of alleged plagiarism given its placing similarity to a different fan-favourite Metroidvania sport – does not but have a launch date, however is anticipated to launch within the subsequent three months, providing as much as four-player multiplayer.
By no means Grave: The Witch and the Curse – Announce Trailer
In contrast to Palworld, nonetheless, Pocketpair is not listed as this sport’s developer, solely its writer. Pocketpair was listed because the developer up till three days in the past, however after a fast verify with SteamDB, it appears this was modified on 25 January 2024.
Now, Frontside 180 – a brand new studio which appears to have little to no digital footprint – is listed because the developer.
Wayback Machine additionally confirms By no means Grave listed Pocketpair as its developer till just lately, too.
By no means Grave is described as “a Metroidvania x Roguelite the place you journey with assistance from a cursed hat”.
“Use quite a lot of magic or possess your enemies to succeed in the bottom ranges! Carry again loot, construct new amenities in your village, make a dwelling and strengthen your self for the following battle!
“In contrast to most platformers, it has an enemy possession system, base constructing and multiplayer.”
Earlier this week, The Pokémon Firm issued an announcement confirming it was now “investigating” whether or not Pocketpair’s astonishingly profitable Palworld has infringed its mental property rights.
Not that that has dampened enthusiasm for Palworld amongst gamers, after all. Yesterday noticed Palworld’s Steam concurrent numbers go two million for the primary time, making Palworld the second sport ever on Steam to take action after PUBG. It additionally as soon as once more broke its personal concurrent consumer document in a single day, hitting a brand new excessive of two,101,867 concurrent gamers.
